What is Palatable?

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Here we are not talking about food, but Pallets, large and awkward pallets.

Pallets can carry a range of things from food and drink for small and large businesses, in tandem they can host a whole house, in fact pallets can hold pretty much anything that can fit on them, which makes them the great feat in modern day transportation.

The history of pallets isn’t once what they are commonly used for, forklifts, in fact pallets go back to 1925, by a man called Howard T. Hallowell who actually named it a “Lift Truck Platform.

When they where new they where commonly called the skid, easy to slide along the floor of factories and warehouses.

Little did they know the importance of the creation of pallets during WW2. During the war the demand for Pallets went though the roof. During this term the four-way pallet was invented, pallets where crucial to allied and UK army to efficiently deliver, food, weapons and armaments as fast as possible.

We now land here today, the fact that pallets have shown they are ‘palatable’ to anything goes to show the importance for transportation companies to offer whole or more pallet deliveries.

The Realities of Moving Home

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When the speak-able, choice or not, comes along to move home, usually the last thing on anyone mind is, “How are we going to move all this stuff”.

The first thoughts are maybe, how are the schools, what’s the area like, what are the amenities, or transport.

This is the key part for transportation companies, alleviating the stress of moving all your goods to your new home. Transportation Companies have a lot of work when it comes to this because its not as simple as moving things from A to B.

To have trusted relationship with your client your first instance is to listen to them carefully, then show you are taking good care of their goods while packing.

This is important because it showed your clients that you will diligently move their goods which allows them to have peace of mind while it is in transportation.

The realities of moving is wholly dependant on making sure you pick the perfect transporter for you.

Global economics have seen a far larger growth for transportation companies, especially after restrictions were tightened for Covid-19. This is key time for delivery companies to build huge rapport with an ever-growing number of available clients.

The near Future of Transportation

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If there is anything that we have seen during these past 2 years is that transportation was the driving role in keeping the country going despite huge setbacks. With people unable to leave their homes and shops being closed, the transportation of E-commerce goods saw a dramatic boom in business. Handling these where core workers who devoted their time to making sure consumers got their products.

The country before the pandemic saw a rise in E-commerce delivery because regardless of a pandemic, the Highstreet was dying, seeing shopper numbers in store drop dramatically as e-commerce shops such as Amazon, Boohoo, and ASOS took the podium for online shopping.

Analysing these two key interpretations, one being the pandemic and the other being the lack of high-street shoppers, where does the future of transportation lay?

Fundamentally we hope there will not always be a pandemic, the global economy relies of that, but one thing it cannot rely on is the fact that the high-street is dying. The analysis is rather simple, delivery and transportation will continue to grow but is there an opportunity for the two to work together?

The future of transportation will fundamentally rely on people needing things to be delivered so as long as there is commerce anywhere, transportation companies should see a logarithmic path to growth if they handle their business correctly.

The Responsibility of Delivering

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The Responsibility of delivering.

Imagine your computer, phone, or any electrical device, it has an intricate network of connections that wants to achieve one goal, that goal is to provide you, the customer with anything you desire from that device.

We now implement those roles into people, in the circuit of connections, a delivery, a job from a client to deliver or transport, takes a connection of people to do it. The management team organise the roles of importance, from advertising to warehouse management to haulage driver.

The responsibility of delivering doesn’t rest solely on the customer’s order and delivery, it rests on a circuit of connections. When people complain that their delivery isn’t on time, it takes only this understanding that circuit connections rely on the linear circuit. Just as if one part of your phone or electrical device doesn’t work, it will have a relay effect on things to come.

For this reason, the responsibility of delivering doesn’t rest solely on giving the customer what they desire but instead making sure your mechanism of business is working efficiently and smoothly, because when you have full control and the mechanisms are working well, you get the result of a good delivery.

So how about when your phone stops working properly, you don’t pass on your discontent to the phone, but instead you pass your discontent onto the people that made that phone, just as for delivery, you don’t solely blame one person, you contact the company and find something to blame it on. For this very reason is why the responsibility of delivering is a near impossible perfect and should always be respected by the company and the customer.

The Art of Packing

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The Art of Packing

When you take form of a contract from a client to pack all their belongings, the job starts at the care
of the customers requests.

Packing correctly is imperative of future business, but as said earlier it’s the importance of following
your customers instructions so you can respectfully look after their goods as best as you can.

Getting A to B is not the question, its more about presentation. As a customer, you may see your
priceless painting transported A to B with no damage, but as a customer would you want it half
wrapped with string hanging off it? It may strategically slow your business down, people don’t just
want their goods, ordinary to priceless to be presented in a way that makes them worry about how
it will get to its destination safely.

The art of packing relies that you can show their customers that all their goods will be packed
diligently and safely into correct packaging that the customer can see and have peace of mind while their good are in transit.

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Perishable Logistics: Cold Chain on a Plane

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In perishable logistics, time is of the essence to ensure produce, flowers, fish, and other products reach their destinations while they still offer maximum appeal and shelf life. As a result, many of these goods move via air.

But the potential complications of shipping perishables via air are legion: The trans-Atlantic airfreight space for a produce shipment is booked—but the peppers aren’t ready for harvest. Top New York chefs are writing premium Icelandic cod into their menus in anticipation of delivery—but the fish is sitting in a fog-induced backlog at the Keflavik airport. Holland tulips are loaded into the belly of a passenger aircraft—but then the pilot orders several coolers pulled off to free up weight for extra fuel.

The uncertainty inherent in grown or caught product—combined with the potential vagaries of air transport—means managing perishable logistics demands specific expertise. “The greatest challenge is to maintain the cold chain, which varies from product to product,” says Alvaro Carril, senior vice president of sales and marketing for LAN Cargo, a cargo airline based in Santiago, Chile, and a subsidiary of LAN Airlines. LAN Cargo transports salmon and fruit from Chile, asparagus from Peru, and flowers from Ecuador and Colombia to the U.S. market.

Freight Transport in Alaska: The Haul of the Wild

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Alaska distinguishes itself from the lower 48 states by its abundance of natural resources—crude oil, natural gas, and seafood—as well as breathtaking mountain ranges and vast acres of unspoiled land.

It also presents logistics challenges: a small but widely dispersed population, many in locales reachable only by water or air; highly rugged terrain in much of the state; extreme weather; and limited rail and road infrastructure.

Only 31 percent of Alaska’s roads are paved. Central Alaska is where the roads are, but they don’t reach southeast Alaska—which typically requires barge transport—or rural Alaska, where barge can reach the outskirts, but air is required.

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Reducing Freight Costs

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Transportation prices have risen over the past year, but shippers can cut those costs through smart planning. Tim Benedict, senior director of transportation at APL Logistics, offers the following tips for reducing freight costs.

1. Don’t wing it. Electing to use international air instead of expedited ocean for the majority of hot shipments could leave a boatload of savings on the table. Consider time-definite ocean shipping—it typically costs 75 percent less than air, and is often just as reliable.

2. Ship air-sea or sea-air. Even when circumstances require the use of international air, don’t rule out ocean shipping. Depending on when your goods are due to be delivered, it may still be possible to fly them a portion of the journey, then load them onto an ocean vessel for the rest. The result is fewer miles for your products to travel, and lower freight bills.

3. Let transportation drive your warehouse selection. Choose your distribution centers (DCs) for their transportation efficiency rather than their attractive leasing rates or tax incentives. If a low-cost location adds too many miles or hand-offs to your supply chain, higher shipping bills will offset any location savings.

4. Take advantage of DC bypass. If your company sources globally, but only operates DCs hundreds of miles inland, consider a deconsolidation center near your ports of entry to direct-ship products to nearby customers. This will reduce redundant transportation expenses.

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